Josephine Renforth
596 words
In the article "Does Black Socioeconomic Mobility Explain Recent Progress Towards Black-White Residential Integration? " Wagmiller, GageBouchard, and Karraker explore residential intergration from early twentieth century, "The Great War" (World war I), Pre-Civil Rights, Civil Rights Era, and Post Civil Rights Era. The issue of Socioeconomic status of Blacks using the measure of residency, addressing issues of segregation as well as socioeconomic resources for African Americans. In metropolitan settings, does education "dampen progress" for African Americans? Is three direct or indirect in housing markets? Over time has the black-white residential segregation changed? The research questions are What proportion of the decline in residential segregation is attributable to upward social and economic mobility among blacks? What is attributable to socioeconomic and the ability for blacks to use their resources to obtain housing? What forms of social mobility have been most central to to the decline in in segregation?
The sample used was 2,426 African Americans, aged 45. The age was used to ensure educational attainment was reached, marriage/family, as well as career was established, home-ownership and residency was firmly set. Using the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition method to identify intracohort change in resentence segregation then using ordinary Least Squares regression.
The findings are that Pre-Civil Rights Era, AfricanAmericans had fewer education opportunities and were more likely to have to move from black neighborhoods for integration. In the Civil Rights Era, educational attainment increase as did socioeconomic, with 25% increase in stratification. However, the special assimilation has be attributed to population change in special assimilation over time. Ultimately the integration of Black and White Americans has not dramatically changed over the past 50 years.
IN the article: "African American, Hispanic, and White Beliefs about Black.WhiteInequality, 1977-2004.{"
Researcher Matthew O. Hunt, used GSS data from 1977 through 204 to evaluate the views of African Americans, Hispanics, and Whites on the Black/White Socioeconomic System have changed.
In the study Hunt addresses that Black Americans have faced inequality for over 100 hears. He cites the work of W.E.B. DuBois research from 1903 on the "Dual Consciousness" that Blacks live and navigate in American Society because "The Color Line." This is significant to the research because attitudes, public policies, racism, and resources for housing and jobs impacted African Americans were affected.
The research method used the GSS from 1977 – 2004. There were 3,000 respondents, two-thirds identified as White, Blacks and Hispanics making up the other third nearly equally.
The research revealed that I the past, Whites felt that the inequality that Blacks experienced was realed to "ability" the ridiculous notion of racial inferiority, and, with lack of motivatin, being a close seond. This views are rooted in traditional racism and lead to policies that further restriction life cances for African Americans, for example, welfare reform, on the belief (and continued belief) that lack of motivationis the primary cause, not structural polices that disadvantage blacks.
The research shows that the views of whites have become more liberal, finding that the inequality that black face today is related to structure, although, motivation and ability did garner some responses. In 1977. The view of whites addressing cause in 2004, respondents reported increase in motivational cause by 5 percentage point, education by over 5 percentage points. Hunt believes that syndications that the white respondents want to believe that the American Economic system is fair. Meanwhile black respondents had a small increase in causation being "ability" related, as well as Motivationup from 7.0 to 13.3 in 204. Hispanics also cited Motivation as a primary factor in 2004 at 2109%, twice as many from the 1985-89 survey.
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